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Rh description, is, I think, not inaccurate when referred to the view of Dieppe at the foot of the cliffs. Again, in the third case, it will be seen that in general outlines the two drawings are similar, but I interpreted my impressions on too small a scale when I suggested a globe of electric light carried on a pillar for what was the sun momentarily resting upon the hilltop.

The form of these experiments is open to some objection: and in ordinary cases it might fairly be suspected that the success attained was partly due to verbal indications given by the agent, which had been through forgetfulness omitted from the record. But with an experimenter so scrupulously exact as Mrs. Verrall, I am not disposed to think that allowance of this kind need be made, and it will probably be conceded that the coincidences are too striking to be explained as the result of the natural concurrence of ideas between mother and child.

In the cases quoted of experiments in the transference of imaginary scenes it seems clear that the impression transferred from the agent's mind, however indistinct, has been of a visual character. Sometimes, however, it is the name of the object